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vice-president of the American Medical Associ-
ation. He was twice married. His first wife was
Mary Ingersoll, of Springfield, Mass., whom
he married on Sept. 30, 1830. She died in 1853
and on Jan. 31, 1855, he was married to Henri-
etta Edwards, a daughter of Henry W. Edwards
[#.#*], who with a son survived him. The Worth-
ington Hooker Public School of New Haven,
Conn., memorializes his name.

[Henry Bronson, "Memoir of Prof. Worthington
Hooker, M.D., of New Haven/' Proc. and Medic. Com-
munications of the Conn. Medic. Soc., 2 ser., vol. Ill
(1871); OUt. Record of the Grads. of Yale Coll. . . .
1868 (1868); B. W. Dwight, The Hist, of the Descend-
ants of John Dwight of Dedham (2 vols., 1874)-]

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HOOPER, JOHNSON JONES (June 9,
i8i5-June 7, 1862), humorist, the son of Archi-
bald McLaine and Charlotte (De Berniere)
Hooper, was born in Wilmington, N. C, and
died in Richmond, Va. His father, a journalist,
was related to the most prominent families in
North Carolina, and his mother, the daughter of
a British army officer, was descended from Jer-
emy Taylor. The boy did not go to college, but
at fifteen he was in Charleston, the home of his
mother's relatives, working on a newspaper. At
twenty he set out on a journey of the Gulf states,
living by his wits, a few months here and a few
there, until 1840, when he settled in Lafayette,
Ala., and read law under his brother, already a
resident of seven years' standing. But the wan-
derlust and the newspaper instinct had firm hold
of him and he was obliged to be stirring. For a
time he edited the Dadeville Banner, attracting
attention to it by his humor, and then he moved
on to edit the Wetumpka Whig for six months.
This was in 1846. Later in the same year, at
Montgomery, he helped edit the Journal, and
then he returned to Lafayette. In the meantime,
the chronicle of that arch backwoods sharper,
Simon Suggs, whom he had invented for his
journals, had become widely popular; some of it
had been reprinted in the New York Spirit of the
Times, and in 1846 a great portion of it, Some
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the
Tattapoosa Volunteers, was published in book
form in Philadelphia. A. B. Longstreet and
W. T. Thompson [qq.v.*] had preceded Hooper
in portraying the type man of the early Southern
frontier, and J. G. Baldwin [q.v.] a little later
was to do the same with greater artistry. Yet,
by unifying his stories more thoroughly than had
been customary with his predecessors, and by
writing earlier than Baldwin, Hooper retains a
historical importance not attributable to the
others. In 1851 he published The Widow Rug-
by's Husband, A Night at the Ugly Man's and
Other Tales of Alabama, which was similar to

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the Suggs stories in its subject matter, and in
1858 he published Dog and Gun, A Few Loose
Chapters on Shooting. In 1849 Hooper was elect-
ed solicitor of the 9th Alabama circuit, but upon
being defeated for reelection four years later he
moved to Montgomery and established a news-
paper, the Mail He edited this paper until 1861,
when, with the assembling of the Confederate
government in Montgomery, he was made sec-
retary of the Provisional Congress. But so fully
did his reputation as a humorist dominate men's
judgment of him that they could never take him,
as he was eager to be taken, quite seriously, and
though he wished to have a part in the govern-
ment at Richmond, he was disappointed in his
hopes. He was married to an Alabama woman,
the daughter of Greene D. Brantley of Lafayette.
[Lib. of Southern Lit., vol. VI (1909) ; T. M. Owen,
Hist, of Ala. and Diet, of Ala. Biog. (1921), vol. Ill;
Jennette Tandy, Crackerbox Philosophers (1925);
Henry Watterson, Oddities in Southern Life and Char-
acter (1883) ; Wm. Garrett, Reminiscences of Pub. Men
in Ala. (1872) ; F. J. Meine, Tall Tales of the South-
west (1930); Daily Dispatch and Daily Enquirer
(Richmond), June 9, 1862.] J. D.W.

HOOPER, LUCY HAMILTON (Jan. 20,
i835-Aug. 31, 1893), editor, journalist, was
born in Philadelphia, Pa., the daughter of Bataile
Muse Jones, a prominent wholesale grocer. At
the age of nineteen she married Robert M.
Hooper, a well-to-do merchant of Philadelphia,
and for the next ten years devoted herself large-
ly to the fashionable social life of the city. She
found time to indulge her taste for music and art,
and to write occasional poems that brought her a
local reputation for literary ability. In 1864 she
published a little volume of verse, Poems: with
Translations from the German of Geibel and
Others, and acted as associate editor of Our
Daily Fare, a paper put out by the managers of
the Great Central Sanitary Fair held in Phila-
delphia during that yean This pleasant dabbling
in literature came to an end with her husband's
financial failure a few years later. Feeling the
necessity of turning her writing to account, she
obtained, in 1868, through her friendship with
the Lippincott family, a place on the editorial
staff of the newly founded Lippincotfs Mag-
azine. Here she promptly won recognition
through her poems, stories, and a successful se-
ries of gossipy travel letters. She published her
second volume of verse, Poems, in 1871.

In 1874 with her husband and two children she
removed to Paris, Robert Hooper having been
appointed consul-general in that city. There she
devoted herself for the remainder of her life tp
an active journalistic career. She continued her
connection with Lippincotfs Magazine, supply-
ing it with lively articles on French theatres, art

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